Hi all, Sorry if this is slightly off topic - but we are hosting a new VFX and Animation Festival here in Bournemouth - http://www.bfxfestival.com<http://www.bfxfestival.com/>. We are hosting a couple of workshops during the festival you may be interested in:
* Artist Masterclass with Scott Eaton, "Portraiture & Facial Anatomy for Artists" - 2 days (Fri 27 & Sat 28 Sept) Portraiture & Facial Anatomy for Artists is an intensive workshop covering the form, construction, and expressions of the human face. The workshop starts with a detailed analysis of the skull, covering the structure, planes, proportions, and landmarks. This foundation is used to accurately locate and build the features of the face. Each feature is examined in detail to understand its construction and how cartilage, fat, and muscles influence its form. Reference is drawn from classical portraiture, forensic science, plastic surgery and the latest computer graphics research. * 10.00 - 17.00 (Sat 28 Sept) - "The Five Most Important Anatomical Rules for Animators" Dr Stuart Sumida Dr. Stuart Sumida is a respected palaeontologist, biology professor and graduate program coordinator at Cal State San Bernardino. In Hollywood circles, he is the go-to guy animators rely on to bring them up to speed on animal anatomy and locomotion. Considered to be the world's foremost animal locomotion consultant, Sumida will share the five major concepts considered the most useful and popular in his artist training and development work with major film studios. Stuart has worked with Arc Productions, Disney Feature Animation, Double Negative, DreamWorks, ILM, MPC, PIXAR, and SONY ImageWorks. * 10.00-17.00 - One-Day Workshop A: Texturing: hand painting hard surfaces with Adam Redford This will involve the acquisition and preparation of reference, and then move on to hand painting a hard surface model, using Mari 2.0, with the aim of producing a texture package that could be used in a photo-real render. It will involve a number of hand painting techniques as well as a look at some procedural techniques such as tile and tri-planar mapping. * 10.00-17.00 - One-Day Workshop B: Character Projection Texturing with Adam Redford * 10.00 - 17.00 : Part 1 & 2 - 2D Matte painting with Adam Redford and Melania Fodritto - 2 days (Fri 27 & Sat 28 Sept) More details here - http://www.bfxfestival.com/festival/festival-workshops/ The festival should also be fun - we have a great line up including ILM, Double Negative, Framestore Rhythm and Hues, MPC, Cinesite, The Mill, Blue Zoo, Crytek and Frontier Development; as well a number of tech demos by Next Limit, HDR Light Studio and Autodesk. Lastly; we just had our first BFX Competition finish on Friday - 10 student teams, 6 weeks, 7 machines per team (no render farm) - all competing to create an animated or VFX sequence to a brief. Teams were mentored by NCCA and AUB lecturers; as well as our industry partners that included Framestore, Double-Negative, The Mill, MPC, Realise Studios, Hibbert Ralph Animation, Outpost VFX and Cinesite. Check out the work - its outstanding what some have them have achieved in such a small period of time - http://www.bfxfestival.com/bfx-final-films-2013/ Anyway, if you have any questions regarding the festival let me know. Hope to see a few of you here. Cheers Sofronis Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition and Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805 Profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sofronisefstathiou Student Work: http://www.youtube.com/NCCA3DAnimation http://www.youtube.com/NCCADigitalFX http://www.youtube.com/NCCAAnimation [cid:[email protected]]<http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/> [cid:[email protected]] <http://www.bfxfestival.com/> [cid:[email protected]] Awarded for world-class computer animation teaching with wide scientific and creative applications [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages<http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.
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